#hand

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#grenades #hand #having #i #into

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out. ↗

— Don Baylor

#days #doctors #doing #every #every time

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about? ↗

— Beck

#experience #firsthand #how #intolerant #judgment

We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one. ↗

— Beck

#air #cause #hands #hip-hop #i

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#general #general motors #government #hands #just

Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#clean #france #go #hands #here

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#burn #concentrate #focus #hand #rays

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#call #dyed #hand #her #own

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#any #author #come #easily #great